:Wendy Harmer

Harmer was born in Yarram, the daughter of a teacher, and grew up in small country towns in Victoria, including Warncoort, Selby, California Gully and Freshwater Creek, as well as the city of Geelong, where she studied journalism at the Gordon Institute of TAFE and Deakin University, and became a reporter at the Geelong Advertiser.

Harmer's journalistic career took her to Melbourne, where she worked for The Sun News-Pictorial on the rounds of transport, urban affairs and state politics.

As an arts feature writer, she was introduced to a comedy group performing at the Flying Trapeze comedy venue. That group included Ian McFadyen, Mary-Anne Fahey and Peter Moon.

Harmer left The Sun News-Pictorial and worked part-time at the Melbourne Times, while performing as a stand-up comedian in her days off.{{cite news|url=https://www.smh.com.au/business/profile-wendy-harmer-20061213-gdp16i.html|title=Profile: Wendy Harmer|last=Schmidt|first=Lucinda|date=13 December 2006|work=The Sydney Morning Herald|access-date=28 August 2018}} She is acknowledged as the first Australian woman to enter the all-male domain of stand-up comedy in the 2015 ABC TV series Stop Laughing...This Is Serious.{{cite web|url=http://decidertv.com/page/2015/3/17/stop-laughingthis-is-serious-abc-celebrates-the-history-of-australian-comedy|title=Stop Laughing...this is Serious: ABC celebrates the history of Australian comedy|date=17 March 2015|publisher=DeciderTV|access-date=15 April 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160602073044/http://decidertv.com/page/2015/3/17/stop-laughingthis-is-serious-abc-celebrates-the-history-of-australian-comedy|archive-date=2 June 2016|url-status=dead}}

Not long afterwards, Harmer was headlining her own shows at the Last Laugh theatre restaurant, owned by entrepreneur John Pinder, and later by Rick McKenna. The shows included Faking It, Sunburn Bloody Sunburn, and Sunburn the Day After,{{cite web|url=http://www.wendyharmer.com/stage.html|title=Stage|access-date=21 September 2010|archive-date=28 September 2010|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100928005719/http://www.wendyharmer.com/stage.html|url-status=dead}} which included the group from the Flying Trapeze and, among others, Mark Neale, Richard Stubbs, and Steve Vizard.

Harmer was on the board of the first Melbourne International Comedy Festival in 1987, which featured Barry Humphries and Peter Cook. She has also served on the boards of the Belvoir Theatre and the Malthouse Theatre.

She first appeared on television in the ABC children's show Trap, Winkle and Box. She then joined the satirical political TV series The Gillies Report, along with John Clarke, Phillip Scott, Tracy Harvey, Patrick Cook and Jean Kittson.

Harmer went on to host ABC TV's, The Big Gig, including, among others, performers Glynn Nicholas, Rod Quantock, Greg Fleet, Jean Kittson and the Doug Anthony All Stars.

She also hosted her own ABC TV talk series In Harmer's Way, with comedians Greg Fleet, Andrew Goodone, Simon Rogers and Tim Smith.{{cite news|url=https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/131176509|title=A big year ahead for our own national broadcaster|date=5 February 1990|work=The Canberra Times|access-date=28 August 2018|page=32|via=Trove}}

Harmer performed at the Edinburgh Festival on four occasions:

• With Richard Stubbs, as stand-up show Harmer and Stubbs
• With the Australian Government's 1988 OZNOST{{cite web|url=https://roadrunnertwice.com.au/1988/09/oznost-tickles-edinburgh/|title=Oznost tickles Edinburgh|website=Roadrunner twice|access-date=15 April 2016|date=2 July 2014}} troupe, which included Magda Szubanski, Rod Quantock, Gina Riley, Kate Ceberano and Circus Oz
• In her one-woman show Love Gone Wrong, which was awarded "Pick of the Fringe" and was transferred to a theatre in London's West End for a limited season
• As a solo stand-up comic

She wrote, performed and sang in two one-woman shows with musicians - Love Gone Wrong and Please Send More Money, which was directed by Nigel Triffitt. Harmer also appeared on the Ben Elton show Friday Night Live with Dame Edna Everage and the Doug Anthony All Stars.

Her stand-up days were recalled in a 2015 episode of the ABC TV series Home Delivery hosted by Julia Zemiro. Her episode was advertised as a "moving account of her life".{{cite web|url=https://iview.abc.net.au/series/0/video/MP1442H073C00DS1|title=Trailer: Julia Zemiro's Home Delivery - Series 2 Ep 2: 9.00pm Wed 22 Oct ABC : ABC iview|publisher=Australian Broadcasting Corporation|access-date=15 April 2016}}{{Dead link|date=November 2024|bot=InternetArchiveBot|fix-attempted=yes}}

Harmer also appeared in Australian Story Operation Wendy in 2005 in which she travelled to Fiji with the team from Interplast.{{cite web|url=https://www.interplast.org.au|title=Interplast - We exist to repair bodies and rebuild lives|website=Interplast|access-date=15 April 2016}}{{cite news|url=http://www.abc.net.au/austory/content/2005/s1298470.htm|title=Australian Story - Operation Wendy|publisher=Australian Broadcasting Corporation|access-date=15 April 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160503164606/http://www.abc.net.au/austory/content/2005/s1298470.htm|archive-date=3 May 2016|url-status=dead}}

Harmer's performed her one-woman stand-up show Up Late and Loving It at Sydney's Wharf Theatre in 2001.{{cite web|title=Wendy Live: Up Late and Loving It|url=https://www.ausstage.edu.au/pages/event/17688|website=AusStage|access-date=29 September 2016}}

She performed at the 2016, 30th anniversary of the Melbourne International Comedy Festival.{{cite news|title=Melbourne International Comedy Festival Guide|last=Money|first=Laura|url=https://theaustraliatimes.com/2016/03/29/melbourne-international-comedy-festival-guide/|access-date=4 November 2024|quote=Featuring comedic heavyweights Tommy Little, Cal Wilson as your illustrious hosts, the superstar line-up includes Eddie Perfect, Rich Hall, Greg Fleet, The Umbilical Brothers, Wendy Harmer, Rachel Berger and many more!|work=The Australia Times|date=29 March 2016}}

In the mid 1980s Harmer started on radio at 3AK with a Saturday night shift she shared with Jane Clifton. Glenn Robbins was a regular guest. In 1992 she hosted a drive programme called Kaboom on Radio National.{{cite news|url=https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/118166587|title=Allen's mates are doing their best to welcome him|last=Wallace|first=Mark|date=27 January 1992|work=The Canberra Times|access-date=28 August 2018|pages=4|via=Trove}} In 1993, Harmer joined 2Day FM, co-hosting the highly rated breakfast radio show The Morning Crew for 11 years.{{cite web|title=Speaker Details – Wendy Harmer|publisher=Saxton Speakers Bureau|url=http://www.saxton.com.au/default.asp?sd8=1448|access-date=9 March 2008|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080726114855/http://www.saxton.com.au/default.asp?sd8=1448|archive-date=26 July 2008|url-status=dead}} In September 2005, she started in the morning shift at the new Sydney and Melbourne radio station Vega FM, but by March 2006 she had quit her morning show after creative differences with management.{{cite web|title="Harmer exits Vega"|publisher=RadioInfo|date=3 March 2006|url=https://radioinfo.com.au/news/harmer-exits-vega/|access-date=20 April 2024}}

In 2016, Harmer returned to radio, presenting the morning program on ABC Radio Sydney alongside Robbie Buck.{{cite news|url=https://www.news.com.au/entertainment/tv/radio/wendy-harmer-returns-to-radio-as-new-host-of-abc-702-sydney-mornings-program/news-story/83b5d4cb0057bc030e12bcec921231a6|title=Wendy Harmer returns to radio as new host of ABC 702 Sydney Mornings program|website=news.com.au|last=Weir|first=James|date=4 December 2015|access-date=4 December 2015}} On 1 October 2021, Harmer and Buck announced via an ABC News story that they were leaving the morning program after working together for three years, stating that they decided to "go out on a high".{{cite news|agency=ABC News|date=30 September 2021|title=Wendy Harmer and Robbie Buck to leave ABC Radio Sydney breakfast|url=https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-10-01/wendy-harmer-robbie-buck-leave-abc-radio-sydney-breakfast-show/100503556|access-date=30 September 2021}}

Harmer is the author of seven books for adults: It's a Joke, Joyce (1989),{{cite news|url=http://nla.gov.au/nla.news-article120866837|title=The season to be silly|last=Warden|first=Ian|date=16 December 1989|work=The Canberra Times|access-date=28 August 2018|page=4|via=Trove}} Love Gone Wrong (1995),{{cite news|url=https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/126926856|title=Vinegar|last=Warden|first=Ian|date=5 June 1992|work=The Canberra Times|access-date=28 August 2018|pages=3|via=Trove}} So anyway--: Wendy's words of wisdom (1997) (a collection of her weekly columns from the Sydney Morning Herald's Good Weekend Magazine), Farewell My Ovaries (2005), Nagging for Beginners (2006), Love and Punishment (2006). Roadside Sisters was published in April 2009. Her fourth was Friends Like These, published in 2011{{cite news|url=https://www.smh.com.au/lifestyle/priscillas-date-with-broadway-destiny-20110318-1c0r8.html|title=Priscilla's date with Broadway destiny|last=Pitt|first=Helen|date=18 March 2011|work=The Sydney Morning Herald|access-date=29 August 2018}}

Harmer's books have been described as being in the genre of chick lit or hen lit. Harmer wrote{{cite news|url=https://www.theage.com.au/entertainment/books/putting-the-chick-into-lit-20050813-ge0odh.html|title=Putting the chick into lit|work=The Age|access-date=15 April 2016|date=13 August 2005}} that the genres were misunderstood for The Age newspaper.

"And if it's all just banal 'women'{{'s}} stuff? If children, marriage, friendship and happiness are just of marginal concern? Pass me the pastel-covered girlie book and break out the chocolate!" They are popular light novels, and very humorous.

Harmer has also written a series of children's books called the Pearlie the Park Fairy. As of 2015 there are 17 books in the series published to date.{{cite web|title= Austlit — Pearlie by Wendy Harmer |publisher= Austlit|url=https://www.austlit.edu.au/austlit/page/C536602|access-date= 20 April 2024}} They are bestsellers in Australia, and have been published in ten countries around the world. The animated series Pearlie has been shown on Australian, Canadian, and American television, and Harmer adapted the first book in the series, Pearlie in the Park, for the stage. In 2005, this play toured around Australia, performed by the Monkey Baa theatre company.{{cite web|title=Wendy Harmer's Pearlie in the Park|publisher=Monkey Baa|url=http://monkeybaa.com.au/pearlie-in-the-park.html|access-date=9 March 2008|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080505073140/http://monkeybaa.com.au/pearlie-in-the-park.html|archive-date=5 May 2008|url-status=dead}}

I Lost My Mobile at the Mall (2009){{cite journal|last=Coates|first=Karen|year=2011|title=I lost my mobile at the mall: Teenager on the edge of technological breakdown.|journal=Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books|volume=64|issue=8|pages=373–374|doi=10.1353/bcc.2011.0246|s2cid=144815464|id={{ProQuest|862549835}}}} was Harmer's first novel for teens. The sequel was I Made Lattes for a Love God in 2012.{{cite web|title=Wendy Harmer|website=Australian Broadcasting Corporation |url=https://www.abc.net.au/profiles/content/s3969569.htm|agency=ABC News|access-date=29 September 2016|date=23 March 2014}}

In addition to the Pearlie in the Park adaptation, Harmer has written two plays, Backstage Pass{{cite news|url=https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/120860724|title=Harmer writes play|date=18 November 1989|work=The Canberra Times|access-date=28 August 2018|pages=4|via=Trove}} and What Is the Matter With Mary Jane?{{cite web|title=Plays by Wendy Harmer |publisher= The Playwrights Database|url=http://www.doollee.com/PlaywrightsH/harmer-wendy.html|access-date=9 March 2008|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090112152915/http://www.doollee.com/PlaywrightsH/harmer-wendy.html|archive-date=12 January 2009|url-status=dead}} She also wrote the libretto for Baz Luhrmann's Opera Australia production of Lake Lost.

She has written for numerous Australian magazines, and has been a contributing columnist for The Australian Women's Weekly, New Weekly, The Good Weekend, HQ, Sunday Telegraph and Yours magazine.

Harmer contributed to Marie Claire{{'}}s What Women Want in 2002, My Sporting Hero, edited by Greg Gowden and published by Random House Australia, and a volume of The Best Ever Sports Writing . . . 200 Years of Sport Writing.

She also wrote a chapter on "Women talk back",{{cite book|last=Harmer|first=Wendy|publisher=University of Queensland Press|year=2013|isbn=9780702249907|editor-last=Caro|editor-first=Jane|title=Destroying the joint: why women have to change the world|location=St. Lucia, Queensland, Australia|pages=172–181|chapter=Women talk back}} for Destroying The Joint: Why Women Have To Change The World, edited by Jane Caro.{{cite web|title="All Men For Men" |publisher= The Advertiser, 27 April 2013|url=https://www.proquest.com/docview/1346175034|access-date= 6 November 2024|id= {{ProQuest|1346175034}}}}

Harmer founded the website The Hoopla, a news and opinion site for Australian women, in 2011.{{cite web|last=Simons|first=Margaret|title=New Kid on the Block: Wendy Harmer talks all things Hoopla|url=https://www.crikey.com.au/2011/12/05/wendy-harmer-talks-all-things-hoopla/|website=Crikey|publisher=Private Media Operations|access-date=13 March 2016|date=5 December 2011}} It closed in 2015.{{cite web|last=Robin|first=Myriam|title=After jumping through enough ad hoops, a paywalled circus begins|url=https://www.crikey.com.au/2014/04/07/after-jumping-through-enough-ad-hoops-a-paywalled-circus-begins/|website=Crikey|publisher=Private Media Operations|access-date=13 March 2016|date=7 April 2014}}{{cite web|last=Robin|first=Myriam|title='When elephants go to war, the ants get trampled': The Hoopla closes as field gets more crowded|url=https://www.crikey.com.au/2015/03/23/when-elephants-go-to-war-the-ants-get-trampled-the-hoopla-closes-as-field-gets-more-crowded/|website=Crikey|publisher=Private Media Operations|access-date=13 March 2016|date=23 March 2015}}{{cite web|last=Harmer|first=Wendy|title=The Hoopla … Last drinks! Alley oop!|url=https://thehoopla.com.au/ladies-last-drinks-alley-oop/|website=The Hoopla|publisher=We Magazines|access-date=13 March 2016|date=23 March 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160313121024/https://thehoopla.com.au/ladies-last-drinks-alley-oop/|archive-date=13 March 2016|url-status=dead}}

Harmer was the host of the TV series The Big Gig, had her own TV chat show in 1990, In Harmer's Way, and co-starred in the World Series Debate with Andrew Denton from 1993 to 1994. Harmer hosted the Logie Awards of 2002, and was caught up in widespread media criticism of the event, with some focusing on her personal performance.{{cite news|last=Warneke|first=Ross|title=Ho hum, another night at the dreary Logies|newspaper=The Age|date=2 May 2002|url=https://www.theage.com.au/entertainment/tv-and-radio/ho-hum-another-night-at-the-dreary-logies-20020502-gdu6bh.html|access-date=4 November 2024}}{{cite news|title=Logies host bites back|newspaper=ABIX (Australian Business Intelligence)|date= 30 April 2002|url=http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1G1-85255222.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121023091634/http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1G1-85255222.html|url-status=dead|archive-date=23 October 2012}} In 2005, Harmer was the subject of an ABC Australian Story episode. Stuff, a four-part television documentary series which Harmer produced, wrote, and presented, premiered on ABC TV in 2008. The same year, Harmer commenced writing for the animated series Pearlie, based on her series of books. Harmer wrote many of the episodes, acted as a creative producer on the series, and even made a cameo appearance as Astrid the Dream Fairy.

In a 2015 article for The Sydney Morning Herald, Harmer described herself as a "tragic lefty".{{cite news|url=https://www.smh.com.au/opinion/a-way-of-shaming-that-leaves-no-room-for-compassion-20150618-ghraee.html|title=A way of shaming that leaves no room for compassion|last=Harmer|first=Wendy|work=The Sydney Morning Herald|date=19 June 2015|access-date=4 November 2024}} In a 2013 humorous piece for The Hoopla, she described herself as an "old lefty".{{cite web|url=https://thehoopla.com.au/lefty-shops/|title=A Lefty Goes Down The Shops|website=The Hoopla|date=4 August 2013|access-date=15 April 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130805144722/https://thehoopla.com.au/lefty-shops/|archive-date=5 August 2013|url-status=dead}} Harmer told the ABC Q&A program in November 2015 that her politics sounded "like an old fashioned socialist", that she objected to trends towards privatisation of public assets, and that the GST is not fair.{{cite news|url=http://www.abc.net.au/tv/qanda/txt/s4321172.htm|title=Q&A 2 November, 2015: GST, Gonski, Population and Diversity|agency=ABC News|publisher=Australian Broadcasting Corporation|access-date=30 March 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160405104423/http://www.abc.net.au/tv/qanda/txt/s4321172.htm|archive-date=5 April 2016|url-status=dead}} In a 2014 piece for the Herald, Harmer cautioned against being too dismissive of opposing political views: "right and left need each other to progress, we should be more humble about our supposedly deeply-held beliefs and not so quick to label our opponents as either carelessly ill-informed or purposefully evil. Although, don't expect any extremist wingnut or idiotic greenie near you to get that any time soon!"{{cite news|url=https://www.smh.com.au/opinion/feeling-beats-thinking-when-fear-is-on-the-brain-20140926-10lvgz.html|last=Harmer|first=Wendy|title=Feeling beats thinking when fear is on the brain|work=The Sydney Morning Herald|date=27 September 2014|access-date=4 November 2024}} Harmer advocated against the election of Republican Donald Trump at the 2016 United States presidential election.{{cite news|url=http://www.theaustralian.com.au/business/media/mps-slam-abcs-us-election-coverage-as-biased-against-trump/news-story/81fa6d25e53864831148e3d8f1ec3f7c|title=MPs slam ABC's US election coverage as biased against Trump|work=The Australian|date=14 November 2016}}

Harmer wrote in 2016 that acceptance of "gender fluidity" could be one of the "best things" to happen in her lifetime, and that "I believe, with all my heart, that we exist on a dynamic spectrum of sexuality and that labels are at best useless, at worst tragically destructive."{{cite news|date=21 February 2016|access-date=4 November 2024|url=https://www.abc.net.au/news/2016-02-22/wendy-harmer-sexual-fluidity/7188844|last=Harmer|first=Wendy|title=Wendy Harmer: Why gender and sexual fluidity could be one of the best things to happen in my lifetime|agency=ABC News|publisher=Australian Broadcasting Corporation}}

Following the first Budget of the Abbott government in 2014, Harmer wrote: "The government we have now confounds me. It seems it is oblivious to all advice, evidence and entreaties. I just cannot understand how Joe Hockey has come up with a budget that offers no joy. At all. No carrot, all stick. All punishment and threats. No reward he's able to articulate. No budget emergency that stands up to scrutiny."{{cite news|url=https://www.smh.com.au/opinion/wendy-harmer-why-is-tony-abbott-so-down-on-optimism-20140807-101ouj.html|last=Harmer|first=Wendy|title=Wendy Harmer: why is Tony Abbott so down on optimism?|date=19 August 2014|access-date=4 November 2024}}

In 1993, she participated in a comic debate "Does Australia need the Royal Family", arguing the case for the negative alongside future Liberal leader Malcolm Turnbull and Labor politician Graham Richardson.{{cite web|url=https://www.pm.gov.au/media/2016-03-11/interview-wendy-harmer-abc-sydney|title=Wendy Harmer interview with Malcolm Turnbull|agency=ABC Radio|date=11 March 2016|access-date=15 April 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160417040934/https://www.pm.gov.au/media/2016-03-11/interview-wendy-harmer-abc-sydney|archive-date=17 April 2016|url-status=dead}} In October 2015, Harmer tweeted that she is a member of the Australian Republican Movement, and encouraged others to join.{{cite web|url=https://twitter.com/wendy_harmer/status/651298339733012480|url-status=dead|title=Bloody love it... Aussies for a republic are "GO"! Let's do this!! I'm a member, are you?|first=Wendy|last=Harmer|date=6 October 2015|via=Twitter|access-date=5 August 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171031125449/https://twitter.com/wendy_harmer/status/651298339733012480|archive-date=31 October 2017}}

Harmer described long term leader of the Australian Greens Bob Brown as "a good man prosecuting the good cause...".

Harmer was one of 28 members of the National People with Disabilities and Careers Council, created to advise the Australian Government on the development of the National Disability Strategy. She was also the ambassador for Interplast.

In 2014, Harmer wrote for The Sydney Morning Herald that her husband is a "dedicated greenie" and "Activism is now the core of our lives. Our kids have grown up behind protest banners."

In an article written for The Sydney Morning Herald in March 2013, Harmer described herself as "born into an atheist household", but said she attended Church of England Sunday school for a time until her father declared himself "humanist".{{cite news|url=https://www.smh.com.au/opinion/quiet-day-taps-yearning-for-sacred-space-20130328-2gx2i.html|last=Harmer|first=Wendy|title=Quiet day taps yearning for sacred space|work=The Sydney Morning Herald|date=29 March 2013|access-date=4 November 2024}} She wrote in 2016 that her father was "a steadfastly non-religious man, a self-described humanist".

Nevertheless, she wrote, "I've remained deeply attracted to the tale of suffering and resurrection at the heart of the Christian narrative. Endlessly fascinated by accounts of religion, belief, myth, legend and fairytales... I'm one of those pathetic non-believers philosopher Alain de Botton bangs on about. The sad, godless orphans who can't pass a church or temple without entering to light a candle or offer a flower."

In an essay in Destroying The Joint: Why Women Have To Change The World edited by Jane Caro, Harmer wrote that her two children have been confirmed into the Catholic Church.

Harmer is married to Brendan Donohoe and has two children.{{cite web|url=https://www.bodyandsoul.com.au/health/celebrity-profiles/mum-in-profile-wendy-harmer/news-story/693ed438caa481c9d6eab4a1e1e4d8b7|title=Mum in profile: Wendy Harmer|work=Body+Soul|last=King|first=Eloise|date=4 October 2009|access-date=17 June 2023}}

She is a co-founder, of the Manly Warringah Sea Eagles's Angels, the women supporters' group for the local rugby league club.{{cite news|last=Proszenko|first=Adrian|title=Eagles Angels supporters group considers parting with Manly|url=https://www.smh.com.au/sport/nrl/eagles-angels-supporters-group-considers-parting-with-manly-20150730-ginrao.html|access-date=25 September 2016|work=The Sydney Morning Herald|date=30 July 2015}}

The Australian Entertainment Mo Awards (commonly known informally as the Mo Awards), were annual Australian entertainment industry awards. They recognise achievements in live entertainment in Australia from 1975 to 2016. Wendy Harmer won one award in that time.{{cite web|title=MO Award Winners|access-date=16 March 2022|url=https://www.moawards.com.au/awardwinners|website=Mo Awards|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220326000731/https://www.moawards.com.au/awardwinners|archive-date=26 March 2022|url-status=dead}}

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